Liles passes away… UNA owes him much thanks.

FLORENCE – Champion of the University of North Alabama community, Grady Liles passed away Tuesday night. He was 81. As the word spread through the UNA Campus, outpourings of sympathy and praise started swarming over the internet. The Facebook page of North Alabama Football posted a photo of Liles and his wife, expressing the sentiment, “We’ll miss you Grady!”

Photo courtesy UNA.

The Quad-Cities Daily’s Dave Reasons is working on a full report that will be published later today.